[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/9] mvgbe: Support preserving the existing MAC address

Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-04-25T11:37:39Z

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:

> And please add documentation for the new CONFIG_PRESERVE_LOCAL_MAC to
> the README.

We have something similar already on Freescale parts, but it does
sometimes cause problems. If the environment ethaddr is already set,
it is left alone. Otherwise, the MAC address is read from EEPROM.

So we could use CONFIG_PRESERVE_LOCAL_MAC to alter this behavior (i.e.
always use the EEPROM). However, the current default is already
CONFIG_PRESERVE_LOCAL_MAC, so can we change this to something like
CONFIG_OVERRIDE_LOCAL_MAC?

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale